Meta Software Engineer interview experience

That call ran about 45 minutes and included two LeetCode-style questions, and the interviewer was genuinely friendly—almost like they were guiding rather than just testing.

A short while after, I ran into a different kind of assessment: a take-coding test that wasn’t classic LeetCode. It had predefined difficulty levels where the next level unlocked only after passing the test cases. That same overall phase then moved into a phone screen and a virtual on-site with four interviews total—three coding rounds and one system design discussion.

What surprised me was how long the whole thing